Face the Music 9.20.12

Jelly Roll Stomp                                 

Frank Melrose 1929

It’s Tight, Jim                         

Preston Jackson & his Uptown Band 1926

Keep Movin’                                        

James P. Johnson 1945

Gravier Street Blues              

Johnny Dodds & his Orchestra 1940

Characteristic Blues                         

Sidney Bechet with Noble Sissle's Swingsters 1938

Numb Fumblin’                                  

Fats Waller 1929

Put It Right Here                                

Bessie Smith with Porter Grainger and Big Charlie Green 1928

Bottom Blues

Albert Ammons & his Rhythm Kings 1944

What Is There To Say?

Coleman Hawkins & his Orchestra 1945

It Takes Two To Tango

Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio 1952

Hocus Pocus

Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra 1934

What a Dream
Sidney Bechet & his Orchestra 1938

Harlem Air Shaft

Duke Ellington & his Orchestra 1940

Kansas City Jive

Hot Lips Page and his Band 1946

Kansas City Local

Buddy Tate & his Orchestra 1947

Blowed and Gone

Dexter Gordon at a Los Angeles jam session 1943

Twisted

Wardell Gray Quartet 1949